⁷ “Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God. ⁸ I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me. ⁹ I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, ¹⁰ for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. ¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. ¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ “Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, ¹⁵ and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” ²³ Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation.”

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